I love this movie. I've watched it a few times but I could not imagine sitting down at a computer and writing a story like that.

I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard the director Alan Parker (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Commitments) saying that he'd watched Babel and he thought it was amazing, but he couldn't imagine writing a screenplay like that.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

I saw The Wall yet again as part of a class called "Pop culture in the 1960's" dring my last semester at UMD. The professor explained that while the film itself was made much later, she felt that a lot of it really expressed some of the "feeling" of the 60's. She asked if there were any questions and my friend "Jim" said, "Will you be supplying the bong hits or shall we bring our own?", she said "Very funny, but you'll have to supply your own drugs".

And yes, we did.

Roy Hunter wrote:Then, when you've got to know them a bit and their defences are down, you go all Scott the Pirate on them...

Definitely up there in the strangest films I've seen is Park Chan-wook's I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK. About a woman who's sent to a mental institution because she thinks she's a cyborg built for the purpose of saving her grandmother (who is also in a mental institution). While it's nowhere near as good as his masterpiece Oldboy, it's still rather entertaining and very, very strange.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

Honorable mention to "Lost Highway" (or almost anything by David Lynch), "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas", and "Brazil".

Honestly, I don't think Fear and Loathing is really that weird, you just can't approach as a traditional narrative story. It's just a series of events meant to symbolize the disintegration of the optimism of the late 60's into the depression and apathy of the 70's. Right at the point at which drugs went from being something that were supposed to expand your consciousness and instead became something that dulled from the reality of the world.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

17.06.94, my son was born.17.06.94, I stopped doing drugs.Put that in your pipe and smoke it...

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

My munchkins are with their mother every other week, so i enjoy the occasional toke from time to time. The gf and i bought a quarter about 9 months ago and now it's all dried out. Shows how often we do that, huh?

Roy Hunter wrote:Then, when you've got to know them a bit and their defences are down, you go all Scott the Pirate on them...

Scott the Pirate wrote:My munchkins are with their mother every other week, so i enjoy the occasional toke from time to time. The gf and i bought a quarter about 9 months ago and now it's all dried out. Shows how often we do that, huh?

Yup. We re-decorated a couple of years back and found my old 'stoner tin': rolling machine, nail scissors; skins; gauzes; matches; pipes; nail-file; roach material; a bit of 'doo-bee-doo-bee-doo', the whole shooting match. Oh how we laughed and DIDN'T use it.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Scott, that sounds like the sorry remnants of a 'sick call' set. [e.g.: for the RC priest to use when called to give Last Rites to your suddenly-dying-at-home relative, just in case he lacked the presence of mind to bring his own sacramental paraphernalia.]

My parents had one lurking on the wall in the hallway for years. Decades. In fact, it's probably still there. It always gave me the "I-don't-wanna-die-and-go-to-hell" willies. But what a surprise for the unsuspecting cleric or relatives to find a bit of the 'sacrament' in there, eh...

I will honor Monkey in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.~Charles "Darwin" Dickens